"Not only are rodents unsightly and can traumatize your day, but they're a real health-related crises," Mayor Eric Adams said. Last year was a record year for rat disease. From 2001 to 2020 ...

Researchers investigating mysterious COVID-19 mutations found signs of the virus in the city’s massive rat population — sparking concerns the disease could jump from the vermin to humans.

Cases in New York are largely associated with exposure to materials contaminated with rat urine from the Norway rat. The disease can cause ... "The cold winters of NYC likely limit the extent ...

The disease, “leptospirosis,” is spread by contact with rat urine. The health department reported 24 cases of it last year, five of which were sanitation workers. Their union is pushing for ...

NEW YORK – A year after New York City anointed a czar for its war on rats, health officials are seeing a jump in cases of a rare disease linked to rat urine. Sanitation employees, who collect ...

Local cases of the infectious disease leptospirosis, which in New York City is largely associated with exposure to rat urine, are continuing to trend upward, the city’s health department warned ...

Everyone who sets foot in New York City seems to have a rat ... disease. Rats can also be carriers other diseases, such as leptospirosis. This is a bacterial disease spread through rodent urine ...

"Not only are rodents unsightly and can traumatize your day, but they're a real health-related crises," Mayor Eric Adams said. Last year was a record year for rat disease. From 2001 to 2020 ...

Between 2001 and 2020, the city logged an average of just three leptospirosis cases a year—and some of those were travel related. But, things took a turn during the pandemic when the rat ...

NEW YORK (WABC) -- Of the 24 people sickened in New York City last year from leptospirosis, a disease caused by rat urine ... injured or killed by this job-related disease." ...

Either way, the rat’s initial ascent is perhaps a perfect metaphor for NYC’s war on rodents ... there were 41,748 rat sightings and other vermin-related complaints made through the city ...

Since last fall, Adams has been hit with three tickets for rat-related violations at the brownstone he owns in Bed-Stuy. Two were dismissed, but a $300 fine he contested at last month’s court ...